Author Archives: Anthony Pesce

The middle school in South Los Angeles where Idin Kashefipour teaches is surrounded by steel and concrete. A tall fence separates the school from the surrounding area, and school personnel stand by the front gate and patrol the school throughout the day. Inside Kashefipour’s small classroom, the students study an essay about hip-hop. They come […]

Troy Isaac knew his campaign would be an uphill battle. Isaac, a former independent candidate for Undergraduate Students Association Council president and a third-year political science student, spent more money on his campaign than any slate and still ended up with only 17.25 percent of the vote ““ not enough to make it to this […]

As a brisk mist rose up Bruin Walk, students cheered, jeered and hugged ““ both before and after the undergraduate student election results were announced. Students gathered in Meyerhoff Park in preparation for the expected 9:30 p.m. announcement, and though the Election Board was late with the results, the palpable spirit on the lawn did […]

Hiking up Bruin Walk, many UCLA students receive a handful of fliers, especially during undergraduate student government election season, and the cost of the casually distributed campaign materials can add up to quite a bit of money. This year, candidates spent a total of $20,624.53 on campaign materials, including fliers, T-shirts and Bruin Walk sign […]

Bohemia Cuevas, now a UCLA food service worker, paid a smuggler $1,000 in the middle of the night to guide her over a mountain pass into the United States. Jose Lara, another UCLA food service worker, had a much different experience crossing the border. "I memorized all of the information on someone’s birth certificate. He […]

Garin Hovannisian’s name was likely a familiar one to many students on campus even before his candidacy for undergraduate student government president. After writing a column for the Daily Bruin’s Viewpoint section his freshman year, he moved on to found another campus publication ““ The Bruin Standard ““ which he describes as “opinion, humor and […]

Students put paper bags with the phrases “erasing diversity” and “person of color access denied” over their heads during a rally Thursday afternoon in protest of what they see as the ineffective “color blind” UC admissions policy. According to UCLA admissions statistics, 15.6 percent of underrepresented minority students who applied for fall 2005 were admitted, […]